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luckyleftyme2

(3,880 posts)
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 02:41 AM Dec 2011

boehner pulls the biggest political boner this year


– WSJ lead editorial, “The e GOP's Payroll Tax Fiasco: How did Republicans manage to lose the tax issue to Obama?”: “[W]e wonder if they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest. The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play. Republicans have also achieved the small miracle of letting Mr. Obama position himself as an election-year tax cutter …
even karl rove realizes the politcal failure of this move could march the republicans off the cliff!
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boehner pulls the biggest political boner this year (Original Post) luckyleftyme2 Dec 2011 OP
heres a little more of the flap Boehner is getting luckyleftyme2 Dec 2011 #1
just say NO NO NO luckyleftyme2 Dec 2011 #2

luckyleftyme2

(3,880 posts)
1. heres a little more of the flap Boehner is getting
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 02:44 AM
Dec 2011

NEGOTIATING ALONE: Boehner meets his leaders, 10 a.m. - Tax flap may be fiasco for GOP - Shrum: huge gift to Obama -
this is a major political blunder-!

luckyleftyme2

(3,880 posts)
2. just say NO NO NO
Thu Dec 22, 2011, 02:47 AM
Dec 2011

The game of "NO,NO,TO OBAMA!" MAY VERY WELL BACKFIRE AT THE VOTING BOOTH IN NOVEMBER!
AS THE VOTERS CRY "NO, NO, NO WAY TO THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES!

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